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Hematology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Many hematologists maintain multiple certifications, the most common combination being hematology-medical oncology (9,280) and hematology-hospice and palliative medicine (176).

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. When I see a patient? Matthew, I get the lyrics.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. So I identified myself, and was working in our local cancer center.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

He was a person with schizophrenia, he was a person who used drugs and he presented in pain crisis to our shelter. So, you know, I just wanted to present a couple options and give you a sense of, you know, the background for both. And I wonder if that is key in patients, people who are experiencing homelessness as well.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

It could be in housing, it could be a standalone senior center, home delivered meals, nutrition counseling and nutrition education done by registered dieticians. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. We just kind of start to amass these handouts and I would give them to the patient. Eric: Wait, county 911?

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. I’m hearing dementia patients or patients with dementia.